Harder to reconcile the multi-millions we send to the affected countries in aid, and know that their filthy governments, or what pass for them, are pocketing most of it for their luxury villas, Savile Row suits, and Swiss bank accounts. Ex-Prez of Zambia, Chiluba, died a few weeks ago. He left office before his death with racks of suits at £2,000 a pop, the massed ranks of raids on Harrods and European designer outlets, Swiss bank accounts bursting with £23,000,000 of British 'aid' raided from his country's HIV-ravaged orphans, dirt-poor farmers, potholed roads and frequent power outages.
All most of these countries need are a scattering of desalination plants along their coastlines, with water pipelines (like oil pipelines) to push the water to other countries when needed. Yes, they cost a few million each, but instead of hurling millions after millions every single year at these inept and corrupt places, we should be building these for them and ensuring that the farmers can actually farm and help to keep their own countries alive.
The lotteries are no worse, morally, than the billions put into gambling by punters every year - horses, dogs, spreads, casinos, you-name-it. You might as well say how disgusting the profits are from gambling overall - people able to bung their dosh on the favourite in the 3.30 while thousands starve elsewhere. But the money is there for them - it's already been made available, year on year, by YOU, the taxpayer. A percentage of what you work for is donated to corrupt, rubbishy foreign governments who then spend it on furnishing themselves with Bentleys or Cadillacs, vanity projects, idiotic space programmes, huge military budgets, etc. before a pitiful little drops down to those at whom it was originally aimed. We seem to have a piss-poor audit trail on aid, that's for sure. If we had better accountants and more people in government agencies whose moral compass hadn't rusted solid, thousands of people would never die annually through disease, starvation, or thirst, and their countries would thrive.